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This volume examines the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, through the diaries of two participants who fell in love on the expedition: the field secretary, Fred Hodge--who became a major figure in early twentieth-century anthropology--and the expedition artist, Margaret Magill. Divided into three parts, the book's first two sections chronicle the field operations of the expedition, while the t...

Coming of Age in Chicago combines scholarly essays and primary documents to explore the significance of the 1893 World’s Fair and the history of American anthropology.

This second installment of a multivolume work on the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition focuses on a report written by Cushing on its origins and early months.

In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest. Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the ZuAis with an eye toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health ...

Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the coauthor (with David R. Wilcox) of The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing and The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881–1889. David R. Wilcox is the former head of the anthropology department at the Museum of Northern Arizona and continues to be an adjunct professor...